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Your blog that I regulary read is nice. This post leads to some
questions.

Can you explain us how it is possible to be the president of the ICANN, i.e. an international non-profit organization responsible of internet, and in the same time employed by one of the most important corporation in IT ? Do you think that it will possible to manage the interest conflicts between these two functions? How the democratic rules of the ICANN can manage this fact ?

Hi Dial. Many of the the board members are involved in some way in the IT industry. Time to time, conflicts will arise, and these are disclosed to and dealth with in the conflicts of interest committee. Vint is the chairman, but all 15 board members have a very strong voice. I do not think Vint's new position has any significant conflict of interest issues, and may, in fact, have less than when he was at MCI. I'm not sure. But I'm confident that Vint will disclose any as they come up.

Joi Ito posted this morning that Vint Cerf has left MCI to work for Google. This is very interesting news. (Google press release via SiliconBeat) Joi puts the news in context of eBay buying Skype, but I see this adding... Read More